Punk Rooster wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:Psyber wrote:The lady who became my 2nd wife had furnished her place in Unley from the local St Vinnies.
In that location she got some good durable stuff cheaply.
Today's furniture does seem to offer you a basic choice - it is generally either flimsy, or b..... expensive.
(However I have, occasionally, picked up some nice bits at Freedom's sales - it becomes worthwhile at half-price.)
Cleopatra?

Making Psyber
Ptolemy XIV or
Julius Ceaser?

Followed by, as lovers, Pompei, then Marcus Antonius IIRC.
Only Octavianus, when he came to fight Marcus, seemed to be able to resist her.
After she went on her Asp binge after his failing to fall for her, he went straight back to Rome and become Caesar Augustus.
In the opening scene of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" the topic is introduced between two Roman soldiers thus IIRC:
"Our Captain's heart is become the bellows and the fan to cool a Gypsy's lust. She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed. He ploughed her and she cropped."The crop's name was Caesarion, and Cleo wanted Julius to nominate him as his successor.
PS: My second marriage was on the Ides of March in 1984, because it amused both of us.